Chapter 213: 213
Rina sat daintily on the back of a beast resembling a large lizard that was more than twice her size . It snaked along the sandy desert with gusto, its tongue flicking out to assess the area around it .
The Pyromancer was currently traveling through the Dune Lands Field Zone, which was an area that was hard to access unless one knew the specific means to enter and traverse it . Naturally, a living cheat like Draco has passed this very information to Rina and the other core members .
More than 3 days had passed since she cleared out the Mirage Cloud Field Zone using Supernova, and her long journey had brought her to the next destination on her list .
When Rina was a little into the Field Zone, she felt the earth tremble as small whirlpools formed in the fine sediments . Out of these holes came brown colored scorpions with double barbed stingers, their bodies the size of a large dog .
「Name: Sand Scorpion – Private Rank monster
Level: 34
HP: 1,100/1,100」
Since she was on the outskirts, the monsters that showed up were naturally the bottom feeders who existed to give players a crash course introduction on what awaited them .
Rina got down from her lizard mount and dusted herself off . Despite being surrounded by more than a dozen Sand Scorpions, she looked unbothered . Surprisingly, her lizard mount also seemed unmoved, and was idly observing the area with a bored expression .
The Sand Scorpions had little in the way of intelligence, but scorn and disdain were not that hard to understand . As such, they screeched in a strange frequency and rushed at her with their claws at the ready .
Rina simply began casting the Supernova skill . Whoever said that one had to be in the center of the Field Zone to use it? As long as one was within the demarcated area that was a part of the Field Zone's territory, that was enough to get the job done .
The only reason she even came this far in was because she was too lazy to rush into the Field Zone to kill the stragglers . After all, Dune Lands Field Zone was much larger and much more of a pain to traverse than the Mirage Cloud Field Zone, especially with Update 1 out and limiting one's stamina .
Since the skill had a one-minute cast time, Little Blaze came out and defended Rina's body . Unlike the Feral Cloud race from the Mirage Cloud Field Zone who were able to sense that Rina's actions would be catastrophic, these Sand Scorpions had poor senses .
Their little beady black eyes couldn't see much, as their kind relied on the tremors made by living beings on the ground to chase and hunt prey . As such, the giant sun that was growing in size in the sky was totally lost on them .
As beings of a desert area, the heat from the Supernova didn't alert them to anything . With the real sun beating on their carapaces every day for their entire lives, they had become extremely resistant to heat .
BOOM!
The whole area shook as the sun connected with the earth, creating a large explosion that ripped apart almost every living thing in the area zone to pieces . Only Rina, her Fire Elemental and the lizard mount were left unscathed, as well as one other entity in a different location .
Just as she was about to move out to clear the rest of the monsters, Rina saw a screen pop up before her .
「System to Player Announcement
Your Special Rank Title, Queen of Death, has activated and reset all your cooldowns!」
Rina was surprised and thrilled . This was the first time it had done so, as the meager 5% chance per kill was not enough to grant her all the world's luck . Not to mention that her luck stat was pretty abysmal anyway . After all, what did a Pyromancer need luck for?
The 5% chance per kill did not refer to each and every monster killed . The system did not differentiate between a single target attack that killed one monster and an area of effect skill which could kill hundreds if not thousands . Both counted as one attack, so it was similar to rolling a 20-sided die and hoping for the best .
Rina smiled and jumped onto the back of the giant lizard, and her party zoomed off at a scary pace that was four times faster than before . Rina still sat languidly on its back, as if the undulations from its body did nothing to her at all . Every now and then they came upon some loot which Little Blaze picked up for her .
Any of the surviving monsters were grasping at straws after the Supernova bombardment . Like a tyrant, Rina fired out fireballs atop her mounts and killed those poor creatures with a few attacks . At best, their HP had fallen down to 20%, but that was only the case for a minority . Most had between 5-10% HP left before Rina found them and sent them to the afterlife .
Rina distinctly understood that Area Zone large-scale skills/spells were truly overpowered . One could harvest a ton of exp every three days and climb faster than other players, as if one were sitting on a rocket .
But then again, was that really so surprising? The prerequisite was to have a top-tier Legendary item, which also had an active skill that covered an entire Area Zone . These kinds of items, even Hidden Powers might not dare to claim that they had one .
Only a freakish beast like Draco could take them out like they were lumps from his brain tumor .
Rina leisurely spent almost 4 hours touring the Field Zone this way . This led her deeper and deeper into the Field Zone, which meant that the monsters were becoming stronger and stronger .
She came across many Specialist and Sergeant Rank Sand Scorpions which had bigger claws and sharper stingers . These ones weren't as badly hurt as those from the outskirts .
This was to be expected, as Rina's base damage wasn't too outrageous . She had only dealt such abhorrent damage in the Emergency Quest because she was loaded with so many buffs from Sublime Notion, Warm Spring, Rambunctious Buttlover and the other clerics that she became a monster .
Still, with her various damages and multipliers, she dealt 200,000 damage as a base, with an extra 200,000 from her Queen of Death title .
Still, it was much better now, thanks to the upgradable Epic item that the system had awarded her after the Emergency Quest .
「Brooch of Magic – Ornamental Item
Rank: Epic
Passive 1 – Amplification: This item increases the wearer's magical damage by 50% .
Active 1 – Coagulate: Activating this skill allows the user to freeze the Worldly Energy of a small area for 1 minute . Cooldown: 1 day .
Further abilities can be unlocked by sacrificing experience points . 0% of 30,000% needed to upgrade to Legendary Rank」
This item greatly suited her as Rina was all for dealing damage through spells and skills . As such, even these higher-class monsters were soon wobbling about while screeching in agony .
There was a 99,9999% chance that being hit by a giant sun must have hurt like hell, so one should not blame them for screaming like wimps after being hit further .
Rina snorted with disdain and put them out of their misery quickly, all the while racking up experience points . She made sure to funnel it all into Flamesear, bringing it to 12,645% from 11,975% . This naturally pleased Rina, but she couldn't help but smile bitterly at the end .
Mirage Cloud Field Zone's demolition had brought her more than two times this amount of experience . However, one could not compare the Cloud Race - no matter how feral they had become - to the measly Sand Scorpions of the Dune Lands Field Zone .
When Rina was sure that she had cleared every monster, her face became solemn and she got off the lizard mount . From her inventory came a few buff potions that Draco had instructed her to take in preparation, which was why she gulped them down without hesitation .
After all, Draco had already told her what would happen after she cleared every monster in the Field Zone . She began casting Supernova once again, as every second was important in order to get it out quicker .
「System to Local Area Announcement
The Scorpion King has been awoken from his slumber due to the deaths of his children! The Scorpion King has entered a berserk state!」
The earth shook and cracked apart, allowing multitudes of desert sand to fall into an ever-widening pit which was within eyesight of Rina . Even worse, a gigantic claw struck out from the pit, blowing volumes of the sediment away and forcibly widening the hole .
Following this, another claw came out and pushed the earth apart, allowing a huge scorpion with a brownish-red shell to crawl out of the ground . It was easily the size of a high-end company's office, towering over the masses like a true king .
「Name: Scorpion King – Captain Rank monster
Level: 50
HP: 650,000/650,000」
When it settled down, it screeched so loudly that a sandstorm was whipped up, blocking the sun and smothering the world around it .
The Scorpion King had sensed the presence of two lifeforms, and turned to glare at Rina and her lizard mount with red eyes . When it saw her, it instinctively knew that she was the cause of its children's deaths .
KILL!
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